Ludmil Alexandrov

Ludmil B. Alexandrov is a Bulgarian-American scientist and an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.^{[3][4][5][1][6]}

Ludmil Alexandrov
Born	Ludmil B. Alexandrov
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Mutational signatures
Scientific career
Fields	Computational Biology Cancer Genomics Mutagenesis Ageing Bioinformatics[1]
Institutions	Los Alamos National Laboratory Wellcome Sanger Institute UC San Diego
Thesis	Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer (2014)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Stratton[2]
Website	profiles.ucsd.edu/ludmil.alexandrov

Education

Alexandrov received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2014.^[2]

Career and research

Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures together with Michael Stratton and colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.^[7]

Alexandrov's research interests are in computational biology, cancer genomics, mutagenesis, ageing and bioinformatics.^[1] Alexandrov is one of the co-leaders of the Mutographs of Cancer project, a £20 million Grand Challenge Project funded by Cancer Research UK "to fill in the missing gaps to identify the unknown cancer-causing factors and reveal how they lead to cancer."^[8][9]